Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

in return. Some terrible pounding was done
mostly by Carney in the clinches, but the
McAuliffe men yelled "foup every time they
got together, and Mac found that tine easiest
way to avoid mitigating, at which he YVES
sure to get the worst to hold on to
his opponent with one or both hands, as
Stevenson, the referee, would not allow one
man to punch while the other was cinched.
Carney had to begin to do all the work in
the fourth round, and he chased McAuliffe
all over the enclosure. The exchanges in the
next round were great. McAuliffe seemed
to have little the better OF the straight left
hand out-fghting, and to be the stronger.
Mac laughed when Carney impatiently tried
to coax him to flight round or SO" saying.
an give you enough bye-and-bye"
The betting all through the battle, while
the hottest seen at prze-fght in years, was
also the most fluctuating. The fifth round,
in which McAuliffe's waiting tactics came
out very strongly, closed with bet of $40 to
$40 on Carney. The sixth round was cau-
tious and Carney came to the American in
bis corner, but only ran him around the ring
occasionally.
Carney forced matters, on Chambers ad-
vice, in the seventh round, and knocked Mac
through the ropes in his own corner, where
about all the fighting of the mill" took place.
McAuliffe had the better of the left-hand ex-
changes at the close of this round Wonder
fully clever work was done in the ninth and
tenth rounds. Rally succeeded rally, and the
clinches were quickly broken by the referee,
who cautioned the men not to strike walked
between them, aud then they were free to re-
engage.
Carney got in q good one on McAuliffe's
eye early in the eleventh round and the de-
risive yells of his hackers were answered by
claims of first blood from Carney's nose from
the McAuliffe corner. 1t was awarded, al
though had Carney claimed 1t he could have
secured this point for little ruby trickled
from the Americans nostrils. The fighting
of the next three rounds was a repetition Of
what had taken place.
Two hundred to one hundred was offered
on McAuliffs in the fifteenth round Carney
got in heavily OH Macs nose and mouth in
the next round and knocked his man down
at the ropes. The terrible exchanges of the
next two rounds were in favor Of Carney.
"Ha, said Carney, in the seventeenth, as
McAuliffe came little way out of his corner,
"a fighting round at last" and he clapped his
hands together, then sailed in. Carney, who
once killed man in the prize ring, Is un-
doubtedly one of the wickedest fighters in the
world As he got angrier and angrier every
succeeding round that McAuliffe eluded him.
his teeth set more firmly together, and several
times his seconds and the referee had their
hands full to prevent his losing on foul by
kicking or striking his opponent, who, from
the twentieth round on, tried to win on foul
and later tried to lose on one by grasping
Carney by the legs and trying to throw him.
Carney got in some hard cracks ON Macs
sides and over bis heart in the twenty second
round, and the Williamsburger made pitiful
exhibition of himself He made a grimace OF
pain and tried to claim foul He begged
| for a foul and pressed his hands to his face
in agony in the twenty third round amid
| derisive howls from the Bostonians. Carney
kept begging McAuliffe to "come to the cen.
! ter" as he was afraid to chase him into his
corner all the time, but McAuliffe, who was
| only sent up by the hardest Of work on the
part of his seconds, didn't laugh now and say
later on" He was in too serious pickle.
| McAuliffe rushed for Carney at the opening
of the twenty-fourth, but thesEnglishman got
out of his way. At last McAuliffe landed
one on Carney's left eye, which was already
black He followed it up with two more
blows in quick succession on the Englishman's
left cheek. He then got in light left-handeI
on Carney's mug and Carney made desper.
ate upper-cut, and the round ended in G
draw AT this juncture Carney's Friends
claimed the fight, but the claim was not al
lowed
Both men appeared tired at the opening o
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two rounds that followed were very even.
Neither man got in blow of any account
! From this on to the fifty-iifth round the bat
tie waved warm, with varying sucesA Ne